Samsung 2GHz phone “by next year” as Exynos takes on Tegra 2

Samsung is looking to challenge Qualcomm's Snapdragon and NVIDIA's Tegra 2 with a significant processor push that will take chipset speeds to 2GHz and broaden availability across manufacturers. According to a Samsung exec quoted in the Maeli Business Newspaper, the company intends "to release a 2GHz dual core CPU-equipped smartphone by next year," going on to suggest that the handset "will have the data processing capacities of a regular PC."

The chip responsible for that hitherto-unseen grunt is still in development, but may not be limited solely to Samsung's own range of handsets. Instead, the company is believed to be considering making Exynos chips available for other manufacturers, in an attempt to take on Snapdragon and Tegra 2 as the mainstays of the smartphone SoC industry.